Nancy Mock

Nancy Mock is a tenured faculty member of Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She has held various leadership positions within the university and has founded/co-founded a number of education and research programs related to humanitarian assistance and disaster management. Mock established a novel program post Katrina to provide assessment/analysis work to community-based organizations involved in recovery work in New Orleans. One of her research foci is on the application of information strategies for emergent organization in crisis contexts. She has evaluated and/or reviewed several novel applications of information technology in fragile state contexts, including Ushahidi/crisis mapping and the Mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (mVAM) initiative that was applied in the recent Ebola crisis. She recently participated in a review of the mVAM program led by Nathan Morrow and herself, in collaboration with mVAM senior staff Jean-Martin Bauer and Marie Edlund, to be presented in this workshop. She has conducted applied research on information strategies in numerous humanitarian/disaster management settings including Hurricane Katrina; the Deepwater Horizon disaster; complex emergencies in Southern Africa, the Sahel, Angola, Mozambique and the Horn of Africa; Hurricane Mitch; Venezuela mudslides of 1999; and the Haiti earthquake. She serves as co-chair of the Interagency Working Group on Resilience Measurement and she is currently collaborating with World Vision and CARE International to evaluate resilience building initiatives in Somalia.